The Cruelest Truth: Why Change Is the Entrepreneur’s Unwanted Date

Gather ‘round Script Breakers, 

There's a cruel little secret about this whole entrepreneur life, and since you're my ride-or-dies, I'm spilling the tea. 

Entrepreneurship. 

It sounds so glamorous, doesn't it?

 Like a perfectly curated feed of endless passive income and productive mornings. 

But the cruel, sweaty truth is that building a life—or a business—means getting intimately familiar with change.

And, darling, change is just not fun. Period.

It feels triggering, right?

I swear change is the ultimate emotional trigger, because it’s fueled by this massive, glaring, expansive unknown. 

And for us humans- creatures wired to survive, constantly hyper-alert to danger- nothing screams ‘Danger’ to our delicate nervous systems more than stumbling blindly into an unfamiliar situation or uncharted territory.

We’re like hyper-alert woodland creatures, and this entrepreneurial path? 

It's a dark forest with no map.

It’s the stuff of literal nightmares, whether you applied for the move or not and it blindsided you on a Tuesday.

As a card-carrying, stubborn-as-hell Taurus—yes, the Bull, notoriously stubborn, famously attached to our comfort zones and our favorite coffee mugs—this universal mandate for flux is seriously, relentlessly, aggravatingly true. 

Our love of routine is legendary, yet life, in its infinite, cruel wisdom, is just one giant pivot after another.

We change subtly every day, of course. 

We age, we level up a skill, we swap out one old, tired belief for a new, shiny one. 

That kind of change is manageable, even expected.

But the change I’m talking about? 

That’s the nerve-wracking moment when you realize you’re standing at the edge of a cliff, and the only way to grow is

to jump.

The Jump and the Jack Rabbit Heart

I’m talking about the kind of growth-stimulating change that requires you to step onto a path you’ve never traveled, with no map, no idea what to carry, and no guarantee of a soft landing. 

But despite all those terrifying variables, it’s crystal clear: there is absolutely no going back.

This is the messy, terrifying core of being an entrepreneur and this is where it gets murky, scary, and downright terrifying.

You want this freedom, you crave this success, yet the reaction of your nervous system is pure, visceral terror.

 It’s why your heart starts doing that frantic jack rabbit dance the moment you click "Publish" or send that apparently risky email.

I can tell you right now, no business school, no guru, no podcast can truly prepare you for the emotional, mental, and physical toll of launching your own venture.

 It is a crash course in self-awareness so deep, intense, and ongoing it feels clinically insane.

Moving away from your own status quo—whether it's towards more money, a completely new focus, or even a temporary setback—it always takes time to adjust.

 You’re rewiring your brain and your business, and that emotional turmoil? 

That is the hidden price of admission to the entrepreneur club.